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'cna|s'r's szconn comme. 295in the city of nations, the Roman em ire; and, accordingto Daniel, forty-(ive years will compl)ete the whole planof redemption.18. The two witnesses prove that the 1260 years areended; for it is evident that the Old and New Testamentare not now hid norkept from the common people,but have arisen from their dead state, and are now performingthe otiice God designed they should, conv inglight to the world. They are not clothed in sackzlbth,hut, through the missionaries of the cross, and Biblesocieties, are testifyingto the world of Christ and hissecond coming.19. The civil power of anti-Christ is destroyed, andthe 1260 years, in which she was to rule overkings, andtread the church under foot, wascompleted in 1798,when the French army took the Po e aprisoner,anderected Italy into a republic; since which time the Po ehas exercised but little or no power over kings,or theProtestant church, and she is evidently sinking by theweight of her own corruptions.20. It is very evident that the sixth trumpet hassounded, and the 391 years will be completed in 1839,when the seventh trumpet will begin to sound, and themystery of God will be finished, all that he hath declaredto his servants the prophets. If the fall of theEastern Empire at Constantinoplewas included in thesixth trumpet, which all the principal commentators,whom I have consulted, agree in, and that trumpet wasprepared to sound an hour, a day, a month, and a year,which makes, according to the reckoning of time inJohn's prophecy, 391 gears and 15 days, then the sixthtrumpet is almost nished. The whole appearancestrengthens this exposition of the text; for theof the Turks has diminished morerapidly within power fteenthan any politician, however anxious he couldyears, ave been for the event, could have anticipated.21. The opening of the sixth seal, revealed in the6th and 7th chapters of Revelation, was opened in theFrench revolution, and carries usthrough a sealing timeunto the opening of the seventh seal, which ushers usbefore the judgmentseat of God. No one can deny